If you should be contacted out of the blue by a friend you fell out of contact with years ago but still remember well and fondly, do yourself the favor of writing or calling back. Do this even if just to say 'Hi' or 'Of course I remember you!' Take a moment to reach out, even if you think you might have grown too far apart or if you're just scared. Don't find excuses. Don't procrastinate. Don't think that it doesn't matter.

I'm not entirely convinced of my return as yet. There still seems to be a lot of unnecessary contention here, and I've started wondering if I might simply have outgrown this particular forum. It might be time to move to a different approach, and lj may or may not be the site to use.